Well, perhaps that overstating it a bit, so let me just say that there is a tiny chink of light in the stormy sky and you can see it right here, from the Rasmussen Daily Poll as of a couple of days ago, courtesy of those 'rogues and peasants' at 'IHTM':
Rassmussen compare strong approval against strong dis-approval.
Gallup shows just approval against dis-approval. At the beginning of Obama's term the former outweighed the latter 69 to 13. Today, just under a year later, it is down to 48 to 43!
The importance of this will be felt, I hope, in next year's Congressional elections. I read somewhere that for the Republicans to stand a chance of sweeping the board and capturing both Houses, Obama's popularity ratings would need to sink to the low 40s. That seemed impossible a few months ago but now . . .? To lose both houses of Congress would leave Obama as a futile, feeble president and I suspect that such an outcome would lead to nuclear fission in the Democrat party. In the meantime, that feline, feminine moose-hunter from Alaska whose book has shot to the top of the best sellers list and who has received rapturous applause from huge turnouts at all her book signings which, surely a co-incidence, seemed to take place in suitably sensitive political States, must be oiling up her gun and calibrating the sights ready for big game.
Go git 'im, gal!
Additional: Perhaps that chink of light just widened a fraction. This, courtesy of Drudge, from The Washington Times:
President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. won't be on the midterm ballot next year, but their former Senate seats will be, and both races are now either tossups or leaning Republican in high-visibility contests.
Mr. Obama, who was a freshman senator from Illinois when he was elected president, and Mr. Biden, who was in his sixth term as a senator from Delaware, come from states that have been running strongly Democratic in past elections. No one doubts that Mr. Obama would have been a re-election shoo-in had he remained in the Senate and that Mr. Biden had his seat for the foreseeable future.
But in another sign of political winds that appear to be blowing against the Democrats in the 2010 cycle, Republicans and independent political analysts say the chances are at least even that their seats could be taken over by two strong Republican candidates next November, when the GOP is expected to make gains in Congress and in the state governorships.
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